For years, I heard complaints from people of color, both seeing it on surveys and hearing it anecdotally ...
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Sunday Commentary: White Fragility Underlies the Debate over District Elections
Sunday Commentary: White Fragility Underlies the Debate over District Elections
For years, I heard complaints from people of color, both seeing it on surveys and hearing it anecdotally – an African American football player who interned for the Vanguard several years ago once told ...
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Sunday Commentary: America at Political Odds
Sunday Commentary: America at Political Odds
Milo Comes to Liberal UC Davis Prior to the arrival of Milo Yiannopoulos there was a sequence of events t ...
Milo Comes to Liberal UC Davis Prior to the arrival of Milo Yiannopoulos there was a sequence of events that demonstrated in a microcosm why we were here – not just why we were at the UC Davis campus ...
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My View: Why Are Race Relations Declining and the Divide Widening?
My View: Why Are Race Relations Declining and the Divide Widening?
Yesterday one of our posters posted a poll from Rasmussen Reports from last September that found that “On ...
Yesterday one of our posters posted a poll from Rasmussen Reports from last September that found that “Only 20% of Likely U.S. Voters believe President Obama has brought Americans of different races c ...
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Commentary: Tragic Killings Are a Warning
Commentary: Tragic Killings Are a Warning
Two separate police shootings on Tuesday and Wednesday led to a series of protests across the country, on ...
Two separate police shootings on Tuesday and Wednesday led to a series of protests across the country, one of which turned deadly for five police officers in Dallas with six more wounded. It is import ...
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My View: Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond Your Command, the Times Are Changing
My View: Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond Your Command, the Times Are Changing
This morning I caught the headline of an op-ed in the Bee by Ben Boychuk, “Protests by self-absorbed stud ...
This morning I caught the headline of an op-ed in the Bee by Ben Boychuk, “Protests by self-absorbed students are out of control.” After reading the op-ed, it is easy to criticize the actions of inexp ...
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Sunday Commentary II: Nation Forced to Face Reality on Race Relations
Sunday Commentary II: Nation Forced to Face Reality on Race Relations
This week a New York Times/CBS News Poll found that nearly 60 percent of Americans, heavy majorities of b ...
This week a New York Times/CBS News Poll found that nearly 60 percent of Americans, heavy majorities of both black and white alike, “think race relations are generally bad, and that nearly four in 10 ...
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Sunday Commentary: New AG Doesn’t Seem Likely to Lead Reform Efforts
Sunday Commentary: New AG Doesn’t Seem Likely to Lead Reform Efforts
The political story was a standoff over the nomination of Loretta Lynch to fill longtime Attorney General ...
The political story was a standoff over the nomination of Loretta Lynch to fill longtime Attorney General Eric Holder’s spot at the head of the Justice Department. The nomination comes at a crucial ti ...
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Commentary: Why This Goes Beyond Ferguson and Staten Island
Commentary: Why This Goes Beyond Ferguson and Staten Island
We have written a lot on the issue of the police and minority relations in the aftermath of Ferguson and ...
We have written a lot on the issue of the police and minority relations in the aftermath of Ferguson and Staten Island and the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. But I still think there is a maj ...
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Sunday Commentary: Violence is Not the Answer
Sunday Commentary: Violence is Not the Answer
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields i ...
"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals." – Martin Luther King, Jr. The nation was horrified to learn that ...
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Are Police Body Cameras the Way to Go to Protect Police and Citizens?
Are Police Body Cameras the Way to Go to Protect Police and Citizens?
In the wake of Ferguson, we have had a nationwide discussion on issues focusing on police accountability ...
In the wake of Ferguson, we have had a nationwide discussion on issues focusing on police accountability and oversight. One idea that has emerged has been requiring police to wear police body cameras ...
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Commentary: Ferguson and the Racial Divide
Commentary: Ferguson and the Racial Divide
One of the more interesting findings in the aftermath of Ferguson is not that blacks and whites have diff ...
One of the more interesting findings in the aftermath of Ferguson is not that blacks and whites have different views of what happened in Ferguson; after all, it is of little surprise that one poll sho ...
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Does President’s Immigration Reform Go Far Enough?
Does President’s Immigration Reform Go Far Enough?
While some have complained that the President overreached by using the executive order route to address i ...
While some have complained that the President overreached by using the executive order route to address immigration reform, the President pushed back that Congress should pass legislation on the issue ...
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Analysis: The Voter Turnout Factor
Analysis: The Voter Turnout Factor
One of the more interesting surprises this election was when I was invited to cover State Superintendent ...
One of the more interesting surprises this election was when I was invited to cover State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson’s visit to Davis. I walked down the street to the Democrati ...
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Sunday Commentary: Gun Violence Hits Close to Home
Sunday Commentary: Gun Violence Hits Close to Home
We interrupt this coverage of the elections for a bit of reality that seems more like unreality. As we no ...
We interrupt this coverage of the elections for a bit of reality that seems more like unreality. As we now know, a distraught young man was driving a black BMW through the city of Isla Vista, a colleg ...
| by David Greenwald